Jft, P 5r ,5 4f W I SB- e Bigpirij. ESTABLISHED FEBEUABT 1S46. i Vol. ;, No. 12. Entered at PltUburg; Postofilcc, "N'oveniber 14, 1SS7, as second-claw matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. rATfTOf ATJVFKTISINO OFFICE. KO0M2U TK1BU E BlILDI NO. N KW YOKE, where com plete tiles oCTHE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advrrtlers appreciate Uir eonrnUnce. 3 lome ad, crtlwrs and Mends of! HE DISPATCH, ivLlle In New York, are also made wclcoino. THE DISPA TCItit mmlarly on ftdeat Sirnfttno', f Vnion tq-uart, 2to lark, and 3? Ave tie VOpem, Jaris. Jmwv..irftere tivvone tco ha been disap pointed at a hotel netcs ttand can obtain it. TERMS OF TOK DISPATCH. rofTACE ma ix the uxited states. runr Dispatch, One Year S 8 CO Dailt DtsrATcn, lcr Qnartcr 2 00 DAILY DISPATCH. One Month TO DAILY DisrATCU, Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday. 3 m'ths. 2 SO Daily DisrATcn, Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. SO Scxday Dispatch, One Year 2 50 Weikly Dispatch, One Year 1 55 The Dailt Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 11 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at aoctntsperweek. riTTSBUEG, TUESDAY, JTJXE9, 1891. AX INVESTIGATION REQUIRED. The action of Common Council yester day in passing a resolution for an investi gation of the charge thatCouncilmen have been demanding money for the grant of privileges in the streets, was the only course that could be taken with any re gard to the reputation of that body. It is to be hoped that the action of the -Select branch will permit the investigation to be promptly made. When charges of what is practically official-blackmail have been made by any person, the only course .consistent with public honesty Is prompt and thorough in. vestigation. If the charge is true the pub lic interest requires that the men guilty of such acts shall be exposed and punished. If the charge is false ihe public interest no less clearly requires that those who make false charges of that sort shall be placed in their true light Unfortunatel purely councilmanic in vestigations are not regarded with a pro found faith by the public, either as regards their thoroughness or thpir power to com pel testimony. If this committee acts, as proposed, in conjunction with the District Attorney, there is no reason why its find ings should not command respect, why, if any person has been guilty of corrupt acts he should not receive summary and proper punishment. THE POOR FARM PURCHASE. The ordinance giving the Chief of the Department of Charities authority to pur chase land for a Poor Farm passed finally yesterday. The theory of the ordinance is unexceptionable, as the matter is one belonging exclusively to that department. But it is to be hoped that that official will perceive the total lack of necessity in a Poor Farm of two things which have been set up as requisites, namely a river frontage and an area of hundreds of acres. The argument in favor of a river front is the necessity of a water supply. A water supply is an unquestioned necessity; but purer water than the river water in adequate quantity for the needs of the Poor Farm can be found where the land will cost half to a quarter as much as on the river front As to the area any quantity in excess of one hundred acres is needless expense. That amount of land will furnish the in mates of the poorhouse with all the exer cise they need. To raise hay and oats with lunatic and pauper laboron land cost ing $100 to 5600 an acre is a wholly un economic proceeding. It will be much better to cut down the cost of the farm by buying a hundred acres of well located land with a good water supply, where it can be had at 8100 to 5200 per acre, and to put the rest of the money into first-class buildings, than to spend 5200,000 to $330,(KH in land, and limit the buildings corresponding! j. EN THE EIGHT DIRECTION. The Tioga county Republicans are mak ing an effort to free their Congressional district from the burden of the antiquated and troublesome conferee system. They have made a declaration that they will not participate in another conference on that system, and propose instead that a repre sentation in proportion to vote shall be adopted by giving each county In the district one delegate, vtith an additional ono for every thousand votes and final fraction of a thousand over five hundred. This Is a fair proposition so far as it goes, but is does not meet the whole case. The trouble with the conferee system is not only that it gives a county with a small vote equal voice as against on9 with a larger vote, but that it produces deadlocks by setting county against county, until -I trade or purchase gives one county a ma jority. To obviate that delegates should not be chosen from counties but from minor civil divisions, ard of course the basis of representation would liave-to be lowered. If the voters of a Tioga county township prefer a Lycoming county candi date they should be at liberty to choose delegates for him. This is the national way of freeing Con gressional nominations from the muddles produced by the conferee system in every Congressional year for a longtime. Of course it will be antagonized by the politi cal influences in small counties, which wish to preserve their stock for trading, but it is bound to come sooner or later. CONTRACTION THE OTHER WAT. There seems to liave been some remark ably looso reasoning among the New York bankers at the meeting held to consider Secretary Foster's proposition to extend a portion of the maturing 4 per cent bonds at ljf per cent The grounds for its action are summarized as follows by Bradstrcct's: "A formal resolution, embodying the sense of the bankers present, was that in view of the approaching crop movement and the inevitable demand for circulation, the In terests of the country demanded that the maturing bonds should be extended at the rate of 2 per cent, and that a lower rate of interest would tend to contract the cur rency at an inconvenient time." It does not seem to have occurred to the banking interests of New York that the payment of bonds is a good way to put money in circulation. The logic of the above proposition is that If the banks can not get 2 per cent interest on their bonds they will surrender them and retire their circulation, which they represent as a con traction of the currency. But this com pletely ignore. the fact that for every $000 of bank circulation retired 1 1,000 of Treas ury funds will come into the money market Supposing the amount of i per cent bonds held by the banks as a basis for circulation to be 530,000,000 their payment .wiilj-etire JZOOOWO-of bant - iiotcs - andJjring - out - f$iim :?; f 130,000,000 of coin from the Treasury. Be yond that the $30,000,000 will serve as re serve for $120,000,000 of bank credits, while the $27,000,000 would only be so much currencytivailable in the 'channel of trade. . The fact is that the New"York bankers want to get at least 2 per cent interest and keep their bonds. But that hardly makes it discreet to base their case on an argu ment that really bears in the opposite di rection. BETTEK FIRE PROTECTION. The communication of the Board of Underwriters to the Department of Public Safety, presented to Councils "yesterday, makes another addition to the literature on increased fire protection. The docu mentary discussion of this important ques tion, has thrown so much light on the sub ject that unless, as rumor has-it, the Mayor proposes to add his contribution, the time is about ripe for definite action. , The Board of Underwriters practically agrees with the Chief of the Department of Public Safety as to the steps to be taken for the increase of fire protection. It in dorses the proposition for a fireboat, and the general agreement of authority for that enlargement of the force places the acquisition of a fireboat beyond the limits of debatable measures. Beyond that, the Board pointedly declares that the fire department of 1870 is not adequate for the Pittsburg of 1831, nor is the chief. Among its other recommendations, therefore, Is tho one that the office of Fire Director shall be created, that officer to have charge of tho department at fires; while tho pres ent chief shall give his attention to the organization and discipline of the force In the engine-houses. This is evidently a compromise with the sentiment against the complete retirement of an officer of long service and advanced years. Apart from the question whether its theory Is inharmony with the principles of democratis public service, it seems to involvo a division of authority that would be detrimental to discipline. The officer who directs a force In active service must hold complete authority over itatall times. His subordinates must know that upon their prompt fidelity to his orders their standing and advancement 'will depend. He must be able to select those upon whose loyalty the efficiency of his admin istration will depend; to reward those who are quick and faithful in action, and to discharge those who are slack or insubor dinate. It does not appear that such a division of functions as is proposed in this case would secure to the actual head of the department that supreme authority which Is requisite for the most thorough efficiency. On the question of additional apparatus for protection to the business part of. the city, there Is no material difference of opinion, nor any reason for further delay on the part of Councils. Pittsburg can better afford to pay for thorough fire protection than to go without it INNOCUOUS BECAUSE INVALID. The following remark on a freak of legislation attempted at the late session Is made by the.Philadelphia Press: "The bill to forbid specific contracts to repay a loan in gold was beaten In the last Legislature, as it should have been, because of the man ifest injustice of preventing capitalists from protecting themselves against the financial vagaries which are now domi nating a large portion of the country." There was a better reason for not pass ing the bill than a tender regard for the interest of capitalists. Indeed, so .far as that argument is concerned, capital should not be taken into consideration any more than labor. . But the very sufficient reason why the bill should not be passed is that it would not be worth the paper It was printed on. The Constitution of the United States forbids any State to pass an act impairing the validity of contracts, and the constitu tional principles laid down by the Supreme Court of this State have made it plain that no such interference with the freedom of contract would be permitted by It, even if the United States Constitution did not for bid. This mercifully preserves State legislatures from such foolishness as the National Congress has at times attempted to prevent specific contracts to deliver a commodity of universal use. This makes the comment of the esteemed Press, though right in its general bearing, open to one criticism. The bill would not have inflicted injustice on anyone. It would have been just so much waste paper. NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TARIFF. The following specimen of tariff argu ment from the New York Press shows that both sides are. apt to resort to arguments with very slight foundation in fact: The information which maybe gleaned from the free trade papers that twenty-three big iron furnaces in the Mahoning Valley of Ohio and Shenango Valley xf Pennsylvania, which have been idle since January L have all boon put in blast within a short time, most have been overlooked on the proofs by the "calamity editors." Such evidence of re turning activity in a great industry is dis astrous to the calamity man's cry that tho McKinley bUI Is ruining the country. It was very silly for the free trade or gans to refer to the suspension of the Valley furnaces as an effect of the Mc Kinley bill It is no less silly for the pro tection organ to refer to their resumption as due to the same cause. The little fact that no change was made In the tariff, either on the pig iron product or the materials of ore or coke, might have pre vented both, if the argument were con ducted with intelligence. The extract quoted is peculiarly un fortunate because it is related to an issue wholly distinct from the tariff; and in that connection it is far from reassuring. The issue Is the .power of the railroads by com bination to suppress competition and limit the growth and prosperity of an industry by imposing what the freight will bear while competing sections obtain the ad vantage of lower rates. The iron interests of "Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio furnish the most profitable freights the railroads carry. Yet the railway combina tion is maintaining rates that ate trans ferring the industries to the Southern mar kets. The suspension of the. Valley fur naces was an attempt to force a reduction of rates; and their resumption is an evi dence that the railroad combination is stronger than that of the furnace owners.- When a movement bears so exclusively on tho question of railroad power to main tain high rates, it is worse than foolish to muddle it up with the tariff issue, from which it is wholly separated. Tin; action of the Xondon bankers last week in declaring that in future times of monetary stringency it will be expedient to actjolntl in protecting the Bank of Eng land reserve is a sequel to the view token in the other direction. In the lost panic the Bank of England was called upon to hold up a weak banking house, and the result of that experiment seems to be that other banks have got to hold ud the Bank of England. Further experiments lUpng that line in ill probably amount to an expensive demonstra tion that the best way to keep banks solvent is to let every bank understand that it has got to stand on its own bottom In the shape of reserve. The ercction.of a, telegraph, pole in front nf a AntrnnftA nf thr Allncrhitnv fHfcwTTn'1 Lcauses - quito an insurrection among theJ aap - municipal politicians of tho Northsido. The same erection In front or tho doors of private citizens 'has not agitated theso gentlemen particularly; bnt the same ex perience nt their center of business may convince them that the polos must go. One of the instructive though not wholly edifying features of the princely gambling case in England is that no one in the Prince of Wales' circle seems to have thought of the fact that the surest way to prevent cheating at gambling was to expose the cheater and then renounce gambling. The most import ant consideration according to the united testimony of all witnesses was to prevent the awful faot from getting out. In England as well as in America there seems, to be a conviction that the most disgraceful thing about dishonesty is in being found out. The 'bus drivers' strike has spread from Paris to London, with the prominent feature that the strikers are able to atop traffic. Sarcasms of theeffote powers at the inability of the authorities of this country to control street car strikes, will no longer be in order. The strike question Is as much of an unsolved problem in England as elsewhere. If it is true that the administration's action in raising the blockade put Hippolyte in the Presldental position, then its failure to receive tho consideration in the shape of the mole St. Nicholas for a coaling station, should warn our statesmen that it served them Just right in undertaking to set np and pull down governments for other people. A coaling station is all very well; but it is not important enough to permit a republican government to ignore the principle that the only right foundation for government lies In the consent of tho governed. Common Councils seem toliave arrived with commendable promptness at the con clusion that m hen charges of councilmanio blackmail are afloat investigation is re quired. The conclusion is on obvious one. Sir. Edward CIakke does not seem to have the fear of His Boyal Highness before his eyes. But in England, as in this country, it is well known that learned counsel can say what they please and have it taken as merely representing their clients. If Sir Edward should say in private life that the Prince of Wales is no better than Sir. William Gordon-Camming, his chances of promotion to the bench would be exceedingly slim. Mobe fire protection is the -note sounded at Councils yesterday. Prompt action will be duly appreciated by the interests now exposed to danger of Are. The hoodlums who wantonly destroy shrubbery and flowers in tho suburban wards should be sharply dealt with. People who make the streets pleasant have a claim for protection from lawless rowdies. After one or two of the class who make a practice of breaking down shrubs andpullingup flow ers by the roots in private grounds havebeen sent to tho workhouse, some of that protec tion may be afforded. Earthquakes are reported from Italy. Politicians in this country had their experi ence in the same line last fall. CLINGING TO THE UPPEE CBTJST. Peof. MabyE. Byed, of Smith College, has been elected to membership by the British Astronomical Association. Judge HenbyB. Taylob, of Hunting ton, Ind., has been appointed a member of the Pan-Republic Congress Committee. Edna Lyall, tho English novelist, sent $2,500 to the Salvation Army scheme as her "protest" against Prof. Huxley's criticism. Lieutenant Hawxey, who saved the Nipsio and many lives in the famous Samoan hurricane, has received formal commenda tion by resolution of the 'Massachusetts Legislature. Thomas A. Edison is writing his first novel. A telegraph, Atlantio cable, tele phone, phonograph, andiphone and klneto graph will figure among the accessories, and the denouement occurs in a thunder shower. Mrs. Louise Bubbank, of Leominstert Mass., is almost 101 years of age. In her early years she walked from Quebeo to Boston, carrying her babe upon her back, the family finances compelling them to make the Journey in that way. Mas. Leland Stanford has decided to turn the Lathrop Memorial in Albany oyer to the trustees of the local orphan asylum and endow it with $5,000 a year, so as to secure relief from personal attention 0 this charity, which she founded In memorybf her parents several yea& ago. Herb Sciiiialfeld, who was Prince Bismarck's antagonist in his recent electoral contest, was a cigarmaker with no particular fame. Association has brought him eminence, however, and even in his defeat he has gained a notoriety which makes him the victim of the autograph fiend. The Queen of Roumania has undertaken to write on the subject of Bucharest for a great illustrated work on the capitals of the world, which U now being prepared in Paris. This is probably the first time that a Queen has described her capital for the public Vienna will be treated by Madam Adam and Toklo by Judith Gautier. Lady Mactonaed, the widow of the late Canadian Premier, is a remarkable woman. She Is tall, with abundant white hair, and a face that is stamped with energy and determination. She is a clever talker, an omnivorous reader, and the possessor of extraordinary social graces. She is fre quently in attendance at the sittings of Par liament. BATTERY B'S BEUNI0N. A Military Organization With a Glorious Bocord in the Civil TVnr. tSFXCIAL TZLEGRAM TO TUX DISPATCH." Newcastle, Jane 8. A most interesting annual reunion was held to-day by Cooper's famous Battery B at Mt. Jackson, where this battery was organized Just 30 years ago. Of, the 824 original members of the bat tery, 170 were either killed or have since died, and ofthe 151 remaining members there wore but 40 present, many of them be ing scattered in all parts of the country. Hon. John Stewart, Assistant State Superin tendent of Public Schools, delivered the ora tion. Short and chatty addresses were then made by Captain Paul Eohrbacker, of Alle gheny; George" W. Ferrell, of Indiana; He v. B. A. Buzza, of Edenburg, and many others belonging to the battery. An election of officers then followed, Captain J. 11. Cooper being elected president for the next re union; James A. Gardner, of this city. Sec retary, and John A Craig, of Mt. Jackson, Treasuror. Adjutant General William Mc Clelland, who had been made it member of the batten-, was nresent and made n few remarks. Captain Paul Eohrbacker was se- jecteu as orator lor tne reunion next year. It is estimated fully 8,000 visitors attended the meeting. . TT.TITTOIS FB0TECTS HEBSAXBYUBK. She Also Passes Stringent Laws Prohibit ing Child Labor. Sfkikofield, June 8. In the House to-day a bill was passed for the protection of dairy men. It provides that every milk dealer who buys milk on credit shall file with the clerk of tho connty in which he resides a bond in the penal sum of $2,000 for a faithful compliance with the laws governing the traluc in milk and for the payment of all sums due from him on account of milk bought on credit. A bill to prevent child labor was also passed. It forbids the employment of any child under 13 years of age, unless a certifi cate be Issued by the Board of Education or School Directors that such child IS the means of support of an aged or infirm relative. Colonel Linton Defeats 'Mayor Bose. Johx btowst, June 8. Tho official count of the Bepubllcan primaries, cast Saturday, gives Colonel Linton a majority of 1,833 over Mayor Rose for the nomination for the Judgeship. The flght was very bitter, but not so close as was expected by $b,e friends of Bose. . j. "Will the Prince Brook tho Insult? Kansas City Timet. Prince Albert Edward loves a quiet tiger hunt but It may bei observed his fondness for the game never induces him to wander .fer from the gentle Brooke. iaBar lTT-"i;l 1 ' THE. PJTTSBimG DISPATGB, THE'COST OP WHISKY. It My Be Reduced bythe Trust A Japan ese Process of Distilling Awaiting tho Decision on Gibson's Case Carpenters Strikes in the West. OOBEESrOXDINCE Of THE .DISPATCH. Chicago. June 8. The Whisky Trust hav ing overcome all opposition by buy-' lng up the lose or its competitors will be still further strengthened in its monopoly of the whisky markets by its possession of the exolusive right to use the Japanese process of distilling, which Is known to the trade, from the name of its Inventor, as the Tokomine process. By this means the cost of producing spirits is less ened about 15 cents per "bushel of mash and the finished product can be sold at from 4 to 6 cents per gallon less. Tho right to uso this process was acquired in February last by the trust, and it has been tried on a small scale and found successful, but the time for putting it in full operation was deferred until the Calumet and Shufeldt distilleries should be closed. It will now be put in operation in all tho plants operated by. the trust. By the use of this process the spirits may be extracted from corn without the use of malt or small grain, and then the great ex pense of malt and small grains is done away with. The Japanese process is said to be more thorough than that in present use, a much larger amount of product being ob tained from the same quantity of material. Speaking of the change referred to, Presi dent J. B. Grucnhirt, of the trust, said to day that the saving might not be as great as he expeoted,but to thought it would be considerable. Asked if spirits would sell for less than at present, he said that he could not say that they would. "There are so many other things that enter into the cost of production," lie said, "that it is not possible to make a prediction as to future prices. The price of grain may advance and cause an increase in the urices to wholesale dealers notwithstanding a cheapening of the process of manufacture. It is our ob ject to reduce the price of whisky, but I cannot say anything definite about prices. The Tokomine process will be in operation in all our distilleries within a low weeks. Wo shall control lt until the patents ex pire." . Awaitine the Gibson Decision. Tho lawyers of the trust are anxiously looking forward to the .decision of Judge Blodgett on their motion to quash the in dictments in the United States Court against ex-Secretary Gibson, of the trust, for at tempting to bribe Ganger Thomas C. Dewar to blow up the Shufeldt Distillery. The in dictment is based on the, United States statute, which makes it a felony to attempt to bribe a United States officer to do any act inconsistent with his duties. The argument of the trust is that the statute in- question was meant to cover only the offenses, of per sons who attemnt to bribo rovenuo'officers not to do their duties, prescribed by law. If the gaugerin this instance had been bribed to gauge wniSEy irauuuienuy, iney saia. then an offense would have been committed against the statute; bnt, having been bribed to blow np a distillery, his offense is not in cluded in the tonus of the statute. It was also urged that the indictment could not stand because this aot which the gauger was asked to perform was not accomplished. Judge Blodgett's decision will probably be forthcoming next week. His queries to counsel during the argument would seem to Indicate that he thought the indictment should not be quashed. Money for Milwaukee Carpenters. Tho carpenters of Pittsburg have not yet made any requisition on their brothers here for funds to assist in carrying on the pend ing strike. In this respect they are not as enterprising as those of Milwaukee, where a lockout has been in progress for several weeks on account of obnoxious shoprulos, which require the men not to converse dur ing working hours, and impose other vex atious restrictions upon them. Within the past two weeks a requisition from Mil waukee for funds was honored to the ex tent of about $1,000 and more funds will be forthcoming as fast as they are needed. "The Pittsburg men have not made any call upon us," said an officer at the head quarters of the Carpenters' Counoil to-day, "but if they should they will get all the help we can give them. I suppose they have money enough in their local treasuries. wnen tuat is tne case, tne neip 01 otner unions is not asked for." The Strikes In Other Cities. Just now strikes of carpenters are in progress at Erie, Hamilton, O.; Davenport, la.; Seattle, Ogden, "Utah; San Francisco, Port Chester, N. Y.; Staten Island, N. Y., anij" Chattanooga, from all of which places, as well as Pittsburg, Monongahela City and McKeesport, the members of the union here are warned to keep away. The reports from theso points which are received here are of the most encouraging nature. In this city the great strike of 1890 has re sulted in the establishment 35 cents per hour for an eight-hour day as the minimum rate of wages, and many men of exceptional ability are paid in exoess of that figure. Over-time is paid for as time and a half, and Sunday and holiday work is paid as double time. CBEESS ABE CEUMBLlNG. Eev. Frank G. Tyrell, ofSLEonlg, Predicts Their Dissolution. ST. Louts, June 8. Under the head of "Creeds Crumbling' an evening paper quotes Rev. Frank G. Tyrell, pastor of the Central Christian Church, of this city, as saying that all the signs point to a disso lution of orthodox creeds. .Mr. Tyrell pointed out forcibly the discussions In re gard to matters of belief and faith which have shaken the Protestant Church, and3 irom this drew conclusions tnat tne creeds are crumbling and Will ere long disappear. He cannot, he says, ncceptthe belief of the trinity of Jesus, n nd, asked as to whyhebe lleved that the Protestant creeds are falling, he replied that one ' had but to notice how the teachers- of the gospel are demanding the right to make their own deductions pro vided that they acknowledge the divinity of Christ: The effect of Dr. Tyroll's statement is as if a bombshell had exploded in the midst of the orthodox ministers and every body is discussing the stand taken by the reverend gentleman. THE BUILDEBS OF CABS. A Eorge Number' of Them Gather at Cape May for a Week's Convention. SPECIAL TELEGKAM TO THE DISl'ATCII. Cape May, N. J., June 8. During Saturday and yesterday some 400 delegates, with their wives and lady friends, arrived hero to at tend the convention of (he' Master Car Builders' Association of the "United States, which is to convene at the Stockton Hotel to-morrow and continue inSoS3ion the re mainder of the week. The arrivals up to this morning were mostly from .tfow York and .New ungiana cuies, ana 10-aay a largo number arrived from tde West. t ennsyl- vaniawillbe represented by a goodly num- rnum About oer irom irnuaaeipauvunu jrutsourg. PAA ... 1 flfVI rf.lajrn ffl. lMll 1A nMadnt The Master Ballrood Mechanics will as semble at the sama.hotel on Tuesday of next week, and hold sessions throughout that week. A large rude building on the hotel lawn contains the exhibits of all sorts of contrivances and inventions used to sim plify tho running and building of railroads and rolling stock. AN INSTANCE OF H0BSE INTELLIGENCE. The Team Refuses to Itun Over a Child In Its Baby Carriage. I SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. CAHTOsr,"0., June 9. A remarkable illustra tion of equine intelligence is reported from Buck Hill this mdrning. A man named Mar shall was driving into town with a two-horse team, pulling a load of hay. He had been indulging overmuch and foil asleep, leaving his team to go aslt pleased. A hired girl of one of tho neighbors had been trundling a little child in a Jow-wheeled buggy, and while stopping to chat with a friend, care lessly left the buggy In the middle of the rond, Justus the h,eaYlly-loadea hay wagon came along. The driver of the wagon was suddenly awakened by the wagon coming to a stand stilL The sleepy fellow rubbed his eyes and saw his tw o quiet and sensible horses calmly investigating the "buggy and its infant occu pant, which was directly in their path, and which they had refused to run down. The child's buggy had been struck by the wagon tongue, upsetting it, and throwing the child nnder the wheels. Seeing Is Believing. Pa., Saturday Evening Washington, Sapper- jaoie.j Thk PrrTSBUBQ DisrATCU is now" Quartered in Us magnificent new buildings, Diamond and Smithfleld streets. We were shown through tho new establishment last week, and there is no donbt but what it is-one of the finest newspaper plants In thp. United States. Everything is nbW from type to presses. TmJHaifrfmte a.grea$ paper, and sboald'be-'read dally by every, Washing.', toman. 4 ?ZfGZ?7 V.t? " 'TUESDAYt jtfSrB If THE DOCTOB'B" DIAGHOSIS. Fats? Doody's Report of His Visit to a New, fork Physician, New York Recorders Potsey Doody, the Eastslde pugilist, was examined by Dr. Xoomis, the celebrated spe cialist in lung diseases, tho other day. "He and my sister," said Patsoy, 'went to the doctor's office. It was in a basement as dark as a cellar. I fell oyer the feet of two blokes in the dark and nearly broke my neck. I hadn't-been there more than a nin nte until I was called for. I think the doc tor must a-knowod me, fori was not kept waiting. 'What's the matter?' said the doc tor, as if he was ordering a ton of coal. That's what I come here to find out, says E. With that he grabs hold of me coat and pulls it open. Then he lays the flat of his left hand on mo ohest and gives me two welts on the chpst with his right hand. When he was through with that 110 puts his ear on me bosom ond says he, 'Cough.' I let a grave yard croak out of me that shook the win dows. That settled kit. He threw up both hands and stepped back, shaking his head. I looked at him and so did me sister. She said: 4 t "'Well, doctort' " 'Consumption.' says he. "What did I tell youj says I, turning to my sister. 'I'm going to croak, and that's all there is about ft.' " 'What shall Patsey do, doctort says me sister. " 'Go on a farm,' says the doctor. "That's all he said till I asked him what was the matter wid mo throat. " Same thing,' says he. "Mo sister chucked $2 at him and we camo away. I think I'll last till October." HOT A TYPICAL PHIXANTHBOPIST. A Relative Protests Against a Public Monu ment for Mary Morris Hamilton. New Yobk, June 8. The following letter has been sent by Philip Schuyler to 'Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson. Mr. Schuyler has re ceived no reply or direct acknowledgement of any kind: Dear Madami: I have heard for the first time, yesterday, of the proposal of your as sociation to erect a life-size statue of the late Mrs. Georgo L. Schuyler (Mary Morris Hamilton,) to be sent to the WoTlds Pair as representing "The typicql philanthropist," and that committees are being formed throughout the country and monoy is being solicited to carry out this project. Had the family of Mrs. Schuyler, whom I represent, been consulted, or even had the attention of any one of them been drawn to the matter, wo should certainly have protested at the beginning at any such use of her name in this connection. Mrs. Schuyler, though taking her share with others in tho philan thropic work of her day, is in no senso "Tho typical philanthropist," and to place her in such a position is to invite public criticism of a sort which has already been made to the press. In behalf of her family, whose senti ment on this subject is conveyed in this letter, I resDectfullv reanest that thenro- ject,80faras8helsconcerne(l,boabandoned. I shall be obliged for a prompt acknowl edgement of this letter, and for as early a reply as may be possible. Very truly yours, Philip Schuyler. t MACDONALD'S SUCCESS0B IN OFFICE. Sir Charles .Tuppcr Ont in the Cold, With Chances Favoring Mr. Thompson. Ottawa, June 8. In the special dining hall at Earnscllffe lie the remains of its master. The casket stands on a pedestal in the center of the room, and all the appointments are most imposing. When .all was done the mctalllo casket, with. its burden, was car ried down stairs from the room in which the Premier passed away. There the remains will lie until to-morrow, to be viewed by the members of tho household and the few per sonal friends, including the members of the Cabinet, who called at Earnscllffe to-day. So far Lady Macdonald has borne up bravely. The Globe (Liberal;-, discussing the politi cal situation, says: 'Though Sir Charles Tupper has been telegraphed for, the pres ent impression Is that Sir John Thompson will be first Minister. Sir Charles Tapper seems to have been dropped out of reckon ing. His appearance as first Minister would' have excited the hostllltv of Liberal and have provoked not a few Tories. Mr. Abbott, iv uu wus uiiKt-u ui u ivcuk. ago, nas uiso oeen set aside. Government by him would mean government by Mr. Van Home, and the general conviction is that Mr. Vott Home already wields as much influence in and out of Parliament as any single railroad mag nate ought to enjoy." PBINTEBS AND NINE HOTIBS. The International Typographical Union Will Consider the Working Day. Bostos, May 8. The International Typo graphical Union in Faneuil Hall this morning begin its thirty-ninth annual convention. President Edward T. Plank, of Indianapolis, said in relation to a reduction of the hours of labor that the movement is one that should only be undertaken when fully prepared for an earnest and long struggle, and then only by concerted action by all unions at the same time. Under the circumstances it would be a good plan, he said, to adopt a resolution at this session nnd submit the question to a popular vote whether or not we shall make an attempt to enforce a nine-hour day next spring. In this we may gain the support of tho American Federation of Labor. Drafts upon the fund during the year had been very lieavy, the address said, the num ber of lockouts, strikes, etc., having been largo. The Committee on Laws reported favorably upon suggestions that unions comprising 800 or more members may adopt such methods in orderinir strikes as in their Judgment seem best. Areport on the copy right law was presented and referred to the Committee on Miscellaneous Business. Con gratulations were sent to tho Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of North, America now in session in Pittsburg. TBAN SACTI0NS OF TEE LTTTHEBAKS. Doctrinal Matters Discussed and a CoLlego Building Considered. New York, June 8. Tho convention of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States to-day discussed doctrinal matters, the particulars being the proposition, "By faithful adherence to tho word of God alone, can tho true renewing or sanctlfication of heart and life be wrouglit among us." The advisability of buying a new house for tne Drancn 01 tne 11 wayne, inu., conego in this city, was dispussed. Nothing but talk was indulged in, as the whole meeting was postponed until the next convention. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE. Captain George ST. Chester. Captain George M. Chester, a well-known newspaper man of Michigan, died in Detroit yes terday, aged S2 J ears. lie was connected with the Detroit Jree J"i-ror many years. Ills service was, however. Interrupted by a gallant career in the army and by professional work In other cities, lie was ordered as quartermaster to Elinlra, N. Y., for the great draft, and handled, clothed and sent to the front all of the troops raised In Western Hew York. In 1864 President Lincoln promoted him to be Captain and Assistant Quartermaster of Volun teers. i Bon. Samuel Creelman. The death is announced of Hon. Samuel Creelman, aged 83 years, one of the pre-Con-fedcrato poUtlclans of Nova Scotia and one of the leaders of the Liberal party who united with the ConscrraUves to carry the Confederation of the Provinces. He was the first Gold Commissioner or the Provinces, and when the Corihcrvatlves were In power, between 1378 and 1832, he was Oov crmnentleader in the Legislative Council. Bishop Knight. Bishop Knight, of the Episcopal diocese of Milwaukee, died yesterday at hla residence adjoining the cathedral. He was attacked with the irrlp several weeks ago, and on Friday suffered a Stroke of paralysis, which hastened Ills end. De ceased was 60 years of age and went to Wisconsin from Lancaster. He succeeded the late Bishop E. jj, Welles. Captain G. II. Ogden. Captain G. H. Ogden, of Homer City, and Treasurer of the county, died very suddenly "of heart disease, while running to a Are, In Indiana, Pa., yesterday afternooni it Is thought the excite ment hurried his death. Anthony Euwer. Anthony Euwer, who for 40 years has been one of Pittsburg's leading lumbermen, died Sunday at his homo at .Emi worth. The funeral services will be held at 1 30 to-day. Obituary Notes. COLOSXL LIBEL, the inventor or the Lebcl rifle, 1, dead in France. , . HEXBT Lztda, a highly respected citizen of Washington. Pa., dropped dead yesterday morn ing from lit art trouble. He was 63 yean. old. HKSBV HETDA,a weU-knowu stiblo boss of Washington, PA., feU dead yesterday morning of heart disease. Ho was about 65 years of age, and leaves a wUe and three small children. Jons Hott, probably the oldest manufacturer of paper in the country,'' being 84 years of age, died at Manchester. K. H., Sunday night. Ho -retired In 1886. ,HeanpapermlllslnCleclandandCastolla: O., for many yeirs, and also in Peppercu, Mass. 1LT , ; " SWEETS OF SPRINGTIME, x Graduation KinrHui at thn !BnTinlnshr College for Women Five Yonng Eadle! Complete the Course Honors Con ferredThe Social Gossip of a Day. Those with wisdom blest reached DilwortlC annoxto the Pennsylvania College last even' ing by 7 JO at the latest and had the extreme .pleasure of being es6orted to seats by agree able and obliging ushers; but those without tho foresight, or otherwise delayed, were compelled to stand in the halls and on the stops and rah the risk of dislocating their. necEs to get even a passing glimpso of tho five young ladies, clad in white, who occu pied chairs upon the platform, and formed. t!' Kt-auuuwng oiass or tne college. The hall was literally packed, together with all its entrances, yet the people contlnned tooome. Hcallzinst that there was no pos sibility of viewing the pretty platform tab leau, let alone hearing the words of girlish eloquence as they fell from the pretty lips, the latest comers formed little groups on the loyely lawn 'outside, and there enjoyed the strains of Gcrnert's Orchestra as it played an accompaniment to their con versation between the essays of the young ladles. The spacious " parlors and reception rooms of tne college proper weroalso utilized for small conversation parties that partly forgot their disappoint ment, and forgave Dilworth" for being so small, in the enjoyment of the entrancing muslo and picturesque views afforded by the exalted position of the college. In the meantime, the I ovnly misses inside the hall were delighting their favored lis teners with a programmo in which Miss Ella C. Scott, who received second honor, treated 'Puella Americana" in a wonderfully learned manner: Miss Bettle P. Cunningham gave very cleverly her opinions of "English Impressions on American Life." "National Peculiarities" did not receive much mercy from the pointed pen of Miss Ida Sheafer. "Children in Homer" was the subject of Miss Lily V. Piok: ersgill's earnest, thoughtful address. "Attic Salt" was very palatable as delivered by Miss Margaret Easton, who captured the first honor. The conferring of degrees wns followed by an address delivered by Eev. Robert H. Fulton, D.J)., who, with Miss Polletreau. the principal, occupied seats bn tho platform with the young graduates. The Washington and Jefferson College' class of 1868, the first class of the reunited college, will hold its quarter-century reunion Monday evening, June 22, in connection with the commencement exercises at Washing ton. On Tuesday the people of Canons burg will give the class a reception in the old Jefferson College building. Forty men were graduatod in this famous class. Over 25 of them have expressed their purpose to be present at the reunion, including Dr. John Paxton, of New York; Dr. Bobert H. Fulton, ot Philadelphia; Hon. M. E. Alexan der, of Altoona; John Y. Woods, Esq., of Greensburg; Hon. N. E. Slaymaker, of De troit; Bov. Drs. Davis and Mlfnor, of Kansas; Hon. Charles E. Smith, of Indianapolis: Judge Donnan and Hon. W. McDowell, of Washington: Drs. Davis, Miller, Joseph Dick son, Hon. W. S. Miller, N. S. Shaffer, Eev. S. Ollson, Eev. G. A. B. Kobinson and others, of Pittsburg; Hon. L. C. Woolfolk, of Louis ville, and Julius Boyles, of Titusville. Bev. Dr. Fulton will deliver the class oration, and Dr. Paxton will make an address. Be v. S. S. Gilson will read tho class history, and Hon. John Y.Woods will read a class poem. Only threo members of the class have died during these 25 years. Upon one occasion the whole class, expecting three, wore suspended. The reunion will continue for three days. With graceful thoughtfulness Mrs. Charles J. Clark gives her most splendid' entertain ments when the lawns surrounding her ele gant residence on Forbes street are in the very zenith of their June loveliness; thus 'sharing, for a few hours at least, with her many friends the deliciousnes3 of rose sea son at her charming home. One of the pret tiest sights imaginable was seen there yes terday afternoon and last evening, when the hospitality of the homo was extended to friends of the family in honor of Mrs. Louis Clark (nee Phillips), whose marriage to a son of the household is but a recent event. The receiving party, consisting of Mrs. Charles Clark, Mrs. Louis Clark and Mrs. George Painter, together with the bridesmaids of the younger Mrs. Clark, were stationed in the drawing room, but the guests, after paying their respects to the hostess and her lovely group, passed on to allow others the same opportunity, and nat urally enough passed out on the lawn where their handsome costumes were in perfect harmony with the beauties that nature, as sisted oy a nrst ciass gardener, dim so lavishly displayed. The afternoon hours were from 8 to 6, and in the evening the younger social set was received, -after a course dinner, at which the receiving party were-guests. Slightly anomalous, but at the Pittsburg Female College piano contest last night, in the Smithfleld M. E. Church, every young lady wanted to win the Thomas McKeo gold medal, yot also desired soma of the others to get it. At least so Dr. Norcross said when he- announcod Miss Voeghley as the prize manipulator of the keyboard. And she deserved it, for every one of the other con testants was considerably above the aver age. Misses Fuller and Medbury were given nonorarjie mention Dy tne juuges, v. jh, Ballman, Louis Eleber and Miss Clara Oebmler, who pleased all present by their entirely Just decision. The other perform ers were Misses Scott, Johnson, Brown and Luty. Exact Justice would have given every contestant a prize, but, of course, that was not possible. The programme contained difficult numbers from Liszt, Beethoven and Chopin. At its conclusion Miss Elizabeth Norcross made a most favorable Impression by singing several selections in a very pleas ing and effective manner. , The Mrs. Pershing-Anderson School in Allegheny, which, since January, owing to the illness of Mrs. Anderson, has been undor the control of Miss Caroline Lapsley, the Principal of the school, graduated threo pu pils yesterday. The young ladles who re ceived their diplomas are Hiss EllaMoirsob, who will continue her studies at Xassar College next year: Miss Laura Cooper, the daughter of Dr. Cooper, and Hiss Evangeline Ramsey. The gradua tion of the young ladies was accom plished without the usual public exercises on account of the indisposition of the founder of the school; but, though the diplomas wero presented without ostenta tion, they are just as thoroughly material, according to Miss Lapsley, who has consci entiously completed the instruction com menced by Mrs. Anderson, who will resume her teaching in the fall. Hiss Lapsley will discontinue teaching and enter Smith's College. The wee Httlo ones of Allegheny, who last year enjoyed fresh air and wholesome food for a couple of weeks at the expense of the Allegheny Fresh Air Fund, ana anxiously and eagerly looking forward to a repetition of their enjoyment. The first delegation of children will bo sent out July 1, and others will follow semi-monthlv for three months. The homo at Emsworth secured for the sum. mer is already in order, with Mrs. Kearns instulled as matron, and a few in valid mothers and delicate .children are already ensconced there. Applications will be received on Wednesdays, alter the J5tli of this month, at the W. C. T. U. roomscomer of Ohio and East Diamond streets. The matron of tbo rooms. Hiss Marshall, will re ceive them and deliver to the Fresh Air Committee, consisting of Mesdames James B. Scott, A. Watson, Samuel Watson, Eich ard Wood, Mrs. McKnlght and Mrs. Bobin son. The commencement exercise of tho Tonng Ladtos' Sominary at Steubenville are at tracting many friends. The senior recep tion, the baccalaureate and the art recep tion have been the chief points of interest thus far. This afternoon at 2.30 is the time set apart for tho class day exercises. The concert oacurs nt 8 o'clock to-night. Com mencement proper, the sixty-third in the history oyhis time-honored institution, will take placo to-morrow at 10 a. m. There will be an alumna) meeting, always one of the most enjoyable features of such occasions, and at which there will be a reunion of the class of '8L A nASDSOME now communion chpand plate of solid silver, with gojd lining, reposes in chamois skid in n safo placo in the Second Presbyterian Church, to be brought out and used only on communion Sabbaths. The service v,as presented to the church by Mrs. J. McClurg, In memory of her father, -who was for many years un honored older in tho church. It was accepted and used for the first time last Sunday. Social. Chatter. TmJCampbell-Shnw wedding' thi3 evening. "The Tuesday Night Club gives a perform ance to-night. The Gusky Orphanage and Home will bo dedicated this uiternoon. Tnu elocutionary contest of tho Pittsburg Fonuile College will tnko placo this evening in tho Mnitlitield M. E. Church. A hose birthday party wlft bo given by Hiss Jean B. Hamilton, of Bollevne next Friday, with dancing from 7 to H v. v. The hfdies of the First Presbyterian Church, of Allegheny will have an 'all-day sowing. xnursuay ior wo n est arena iiospiwi. , -Hiss Eurao&s Latslet, c-f Wahlgtoa, Pa., is lying seriously ill at the home of her Tincle, Mr. Brooks, on Locust street, Alle gheny. , 'Bxv. Dr. 8craEnLAxn. castor ot the Second. Tresbyterian Church on Perm avenue, has been called to Albany, N. Y.,'tO attend the bedsido of a dying brother. The summer excursion on the Mayflower, under the management of Mr. George C. Jenks. this evening nin ha n -rerv cntovable affair, and will Inaugurate ifseries of such 318. E. E. YEzmnt, the-charming authoress of "Her Brother Donnard," who has been for some time thn tmn, wf xi - KIcholas Veeder. of-Penn avenue, will leave shortly for uainsvllie, her summer home. Ah Ice cream and strawberry sociol will bo held at the Bingham Street M. E. Church, on Thursday, the Uth inst., nnder the auspices of the Ladles' Aid Society. Music and reci tations will be a portion of, the evening's en tertainment. . Ax ice cream social and entertainment for the benefit of the Southsldo Hospital, will be given on Monday evening, June 22, at the rooms of Fidelity Council No 19, Daughters of Llbertv. at South Twentv-Seventh and Sarah streets. Dr. J. Milton Duff will de liver the opening address of the entertain- ment. The engagement is announced of Miss MlnnieHoward, of Allegheny, and Mr-Hartford Gillespie, son of Dr. Gillespie, the Sec retary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Miss Howard is a very sweet, pre possessing young lady of strong church ten dencies, which fact alone would make the affianced congenial. THE BBIGG3 CASE AGAIH. A Ueport to (be Chicago Presbytery Dlsap- proving the Assembly's Act. Chicago, June 8. Drs. Worcester, Dewitt, Lewis and Hoyt, commissioners from the Chicago Presbytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which met re cently at Detroit, made their report to-day at a meeting of the Presbytery convened for that purpose.. In the matter of tho Briggs case, it was tho opinion of the commission ers that tho Assembly had acted unwisely In endorsing tho report of Dr. Patton's com mittee, The.Call case had, by this action, become more complicated and less easy of settlement. Dr. Worcester's scheme of set tlement would have been a solution of tho difficulty. A dispatch from New York says: The New York Presbytery Spent two solid hours dis cussing the Prof. Briggs case to-day. There were plxty-flve present at the meeting, which was held in the lecture room of tho Scotch Church, in East Fourteenth street. Forty-nine were ministers and 16 elders. A letter from Dr. Briggs was re ceived, withdrawing all protest against what he deems the unjust pro cedure of tho Presbytery against him, In order to facilitate the time when his ac cusers must face him and have their charges tried. The committee to arrange for the trial begged for more time. A NEW BUM0B ABOUT NOBLE. vIt Is Said He Will Beslgn and Accept the St. Petersburg Mission. St. Louis, June 8. An afternoon paper is out with a story to the effect that when Gen 1 eral John W. Noble returns here from Hot j Springs, where he is sojourning for his health, he will send his resignation to the President as Secretary of the Interior. The paper also intimates that the General will be sent to St. Petersburg as United States Minister. It Don't Always Work. Chicago Herald. J Sttange as it may appear, Willie Dawson, aged 11, had his wages raised yesterday for pilfering from his employer, the Northwest an Lumberman. Four dollars a week is all he had been receiving; he now gets $3. Yes terday he was taken into custody for rob bing bis employer's malL He frankly ad mitted tho thefts, and said that in two months he had taken abput $30. His board cost him H a week, and he had other neces sities to meet, for which he stolo. He was caught cashing a postal note. Inspector Stuart recommended that the boy be given a chance to redeem himself, and that bis salary be raised to an amount large enough to support him. The treasurer of the Lum berman assented to the proposition. ' Great Hunting Becord. Portland Oregonlan.l A McCloud river woodsman, while making shakes at Black Cox Mountain, cut down a blg-flve-foot sugar pine, which proved to be hollow,for a feet and ?H of hibernating bears. Tne'HcCloud Pioneer asks us to be lieve that there were five black, seven cin namon and three grizzly bears in the hollow tree, and that the man nailed slabs over the open end of the log and started it down the mountain toward town, where It arrived safe and sonnd and is now on exhibition. An Employer's Howard for Generosity. Brooklyn Cltiien.l If a salary of $1 SO a week forced William A 'Green to rob his employer before mar riage, who would have been safe from his avaracious longing after marriage. 1V111 Get Ills Reward. Washington Post. Nebraska is coming to the front. One of her citizens has succeeded in robbing the Standard Oil Company. THEATBICAL NOTES. All the theaters are closed except Harris'. Sloset E. Eiiis, manager of Chas. A Gard ner, is in town, and will stay for a week or so till he goes to New York to arrange for next season. Mahaoeb HAnnv Davis writes from Cin cinnati, where ho has been located for some weeks, that his Silver Grove Park has been doing good business in spite of tho wet spell, and promises to boom when the summer fairly opens. "TENNiauTSr-r ABABltooaV'an admirable warning to those who seek relief in cooling but intoxicating draughts this weather, is being played at Harris' Theater this week by a clever company,, which includes George Hager, George Sccor, Mrs. Bachelle Bcnard, Miss Louise Hofer, Hiss Lizzie Davis and Little Tiny Jonesr The two performances yesterday were fairly attended. The Improvements contemplated in Harris' Theater are of greater importance than Tan Dispatch was informed last week. Manager Starr said yesterday that the theater will be closed about the middlo of July for four weeks. Tho prosceniumarch and auditorium will be re-painted, and a stock of new scenery providod. New chairs will be put In the parquet, and the cntlro house will be cleaned. In tho lobby new tiling Is to be laid, and tho walls re-docoruted. In fact Harris' Theater will be almost equal to new when the season Qf 1S9I-2 commences. Habbt Davis Museum has the sterling and never stale "Hip Van Winkle" as Its dra matic attraction this week. The play Is well presented, all things considered, Edwin Young playing .Rip, Miss S. A. Wallace Oretchen,' and Miss Annetta Sawyer Meenic. In the Curiosity Hall the young women who are sawing wood and saying nothing aro tho chief feature, nnd the contest of fair saw;, era promises to be Interesting. A rep resentation of a. town in miniature with a real steam locomotivo and a train of cars running through it, and other strange sights are toffee found there too. PEOPLE C0HIKG AND G0I5G. X C. Cunningham, a Belleveraon business man, is registoicd at tho Anderson. D. 6. Wheeler, of Columbus, and J. V. Ritz, of Butler, are at the Seventh Avenue Hotel. VT. Ii. Abbott and Colonel James An drews wero among the Eastern passengers last evening. Superintendent Cyrus Merrill, of the Pullman Company, has gono East for a few eeks' vncatlon. Samuel B. Dick, the Mcadville banker, and A. T. Mead, of DuBols. are stoonin? at 1 the Duquesnc. Colonel Stone and wife, "W. H. Graham, wife and daughter, Allle, and Prof. Blalsdeli started last evening for a trip through Europe. H. M. Clarke, of Tidioute. andW-H. Picking, Traveling Passenger Agent of tbo J House. Eev. Robert H. Fulton and wife, of Phil- I a fMt color, but we have some pretty load varie lelphla, arrived in the city yesterday to ' gated colors that might please you.-Vtufee. ade Hlieiiu uiu i-uuuuicuceiueui. uAercinns ul 1110 1 Penusylvunla Female College. j C. 1 Cole, Assistant General Freight Agent of the Pennsylvania company, lore lor uuicago last evening to atcenu u meeting of the Central Traffic Association. James O'Donnell went to Harrisburg last evening to represent tne ucmmonweaicn against tho'appeal for a -pardon for Jsbmm L. Orr. Thomas M. Marshall, John" Kobb and D, T. Patterson will appear for Orr. ssKitx : rf' CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS.". Chicago has 1.000 Arabians. 'Frisco has Chinese coopers. Columbia (S. C) ladies are signing a paper to not shop after 8 r. st. The Bible has now been translated into 66 of tho languages and dialects of Africa. Massachusetts will defy soperstition by dividing itself Into 13 Congressional districts. A turkey flew through a plate glass window five-eighths of an inch thick at Mans field, O., but was not injured. The South will shortly supply the country's lumber demand. There are 3,500 saw-mills running there already. For the first time in 23 years no one was sentenced to receive lashes at the recently-ended term of the Kent connty (DeL) court. 'A Dexter, Me., man wants a divorce from his wife of four weeks' standing be causo she refuses to make flapjacks accord ing to the recipe. There is said to be a Maypop farm in Houston connty, Ga., from which the pro prietor expects to realize a profit of several thousand dollars this year. Charles Boss, a 51-year-old Swede, suicided in New York. He had been in this country 13 months, nnd lived in room No. 13 of a tenement house with 12 companions. The season for peeling tanning bark is on and will last until the middle of July. Men are paid SI 75 per cord for the work, which is more than usual, the number of workmen being small. The Duke of Portland is the champion subscriber to newspapers. He takes all the papers of England and a heap more from all over creation. Tho preceding Duko used to do the same thing, and filled up three houses with them. A small iron safe containing about $12,000 worth of diamonds and other precious stones was dredged up from, the bottom of the bay at San Francisco the other day. The settings of the stones are in the sixteenth century style. A genius with a taste for statistics has calculated that the average newspaper writer makes 4,000,000 strokes with his pen each year, or a line 300 miles long. A rapid penman draws his pen through 16 feet in every minute. In 40 minutes his pen travels a furlong. John-Adams died in Bichland county, O., from a cancer in an unnatural growth on his chin. The growth was never explained by ahy physician. It was a large red ball attached to his chin, and from a distance it looked like a beard. It was at first thought the flesh had become poisoned, but an exam ination revealed a cancer. A rat with only three legs was caught last week by a-son of Mr. J. E. Andrews, on his farm near Perry, Ga. In no other way was the rodent deformed, and the absence of the fourth leg in no way decreased its ? lower of locomotion. Tho third leg wns In he middle of the under part of the. body, and not where the hind legs usually are. Patrick Moore, of Minersville, has an odd collection of chicken eggs, the product of one hen. Each egg differs from the others in formation, and none bear a resemblance to an ordinary hen's egg. One is shaped like an interrogation point, one like the letter S, but the most curious resembles a chick. The head and wings are plainly developed by the raised surface of the shell. Miss Cordie Hogan, of Greensboro, IT. C, traveled alone to Butte City, Mont., 3,000 miles, to marry Wallace Wharton, who wept West to make his fortuneand could not find time to return for his sweetheart The lady told her parents she was going' to Maryland to visit friends, and they were much alarmed at not hearing from her, until they received a telegram announcing her marriage. In making some excavations on the site of an old Baltimore house recently, tho workmen found an opening about three feet wide, which led Into a small underground chamber. An inspection was made and a number of old rusty kettles and cannon balls were found. It is supposed that the subterranean chamber was used during the Revolutionary War as a hiding place for arms. Seventeen months ago a 13-year-old boy of Peru, Ind., disappeared and since then not the slightest trace has been obtained of his whereabouts. The other night he came homo, sound and weiL He had snent hit Ltlme in seeing the world, as was hL intent u seven months In San Francisco. He was in Chicago for tho first two weeks, working as a messenger in a police station, daring which time the Plnkcrtons had the case. John Shin, a tramp, was found nearly frozen near Millersburg, O., last winter, and taken to the infirmary where he was cared for until the other day. Then he asked the superintendent to accompany him to Colum bus. The tramp, who is 80 years old, went to the bank and drew money enough to pay his expenses. He owns 73 acres of land, has $4,000 in bank and owned Govemmentbonds. He is worth 175,000, but likes to hoard his money and tramparound,llvingfornothing. Probably the maddest race for life that ever happened in San Francisco was that of a sleepy 01a nag wnose hitching strap in someway was caught in the cable slot of a street railway. The animal was obliged to run as fast as the ranld transit cable nulled him, until the strap was cut in twain by coming in contaot with a cross cable. Tne norse was noiuing Dace so Hard that the reaction threw him on his haunches. and before he could recover his equilibrium half a hundred citizens were holding him aown. Mrs. Wallace Fuller, of Edinboro, Pa., found a duck's egg one day recently that certainly deserves mention, as a remarkable monstrosity. Mrs.FulIernotlcedtbatitwas a very large one and said to herself. "ItU double yolkea." But when she opened it only one yelk appeared. On further exam ination the mystery was explained. There was another perfectly formed egg inside tho first. This second egg, when opened, was found to contain five perfect yolks. Sup poso the egg had been placed under a fowl and hatched, what would have been the pro duct? For many years a spring of dirty water ran from the house of a certain M. KorotneiT, in tho heart ot Sebastopool, and caused tbo . proprietor much trouble. At times the' spring would cover the best street ln.tbe city with mud. Of late tho spring has be come a public nuisance, and the city authori ties compelled M. Eorotnen to bulfd a small' reservoir around It, and to lead off the ' muddy substance by sewer pipes. But aa soon as this was done it was discovered that the substance in the new reservoir was purs naphtha. For the last three months since) the discovery was made npthing has been, done to utilize this wasting treasure. PREPARE TO SMILE. Colonel Fizzletop was under the painful necessity of administering a severe castlgatlon to his son Johnny. After he had completed his labors, he said sternly to the suffering victim : Now teU me why I punished you?" That's It," sobbed Johnny; you nearly pound the life out of me, and now you don't even know why you did it." Taos Sifting. , He Then you reject me? She I'm sorry, Tery sorry, bnt I must. Hcl(desperately) Then there is only one thing left for me to do, that's aU. She (anxiously) Oh. what do you intend to dor He Propose to somebody else. Sea York freu. Irate Father I never gave my father im pudence when I was a boy. . t Son Maybe your father didn't need lUHfe, - The girls who take vacations - r& With an eye to beach flirtations, f. For nothing spend their time and wear their lum-a. mer costumes gay; The maidens bright and witty .& Stay In the dusty city And flirt all summer with the youths who cannot get away. Aew Tor PrtM. Greene "Whom are your children said to take after, Mr. Enptck? Enpeck; (with a mental reservation) The younger, with a sweet smile and angelic temper, takes after his mother; the elder, that, cross-eyed young viper, takes after me, I'm informed. Ones a Week. Sinclair Uncle Tom says that if I marry you, he wlU set us up in a nice Uttle cottage. EyjNo, I guess not; no Uncle Tom's Cabin for me. Puck. Customer Are these colors fast? New Salesman Weu, black is never considered He I detest being thin, and have tried everything patent medicines Included. Bne (anxious for an Invite) Did you ever try a good dinner at Ddmoulco'sir ITrunk Lttlie't 1U trated Heunpaper. , "For the first time in its histe-ry," sobs a Nebraska dispatch, "a saloon Ucease,as been granted in Wcepfog Water." Tfce ynldinn of geograpnicai nomenclature nas seMea neea aw pjayeamore wantonly, jmo jwr mm. I , A Vfttfe 1-WvlAiaafeiS1-'. ..; -
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers